The Gift\/Down in the Tube Station at Midnight
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The distant echo

Of faraway voices boarding faraway trains

To take them home to

The ones that they love and who love them forever

The glazed, dirty steps, repeat my own and reflect my thoughts

Cold and uninviting, partially naked

Except for toffee wrappers and this morning's paper

Mr. Jones got run down

Headlines of death and sorrow, they tell of tomorrow

Madmen on the rampage

And I'm down in the tube station at midnight

I fumble for change, and pull out the Queen

Smiling, beguiling

I put in the money and pull out a plum

Behind me

Whispers in the shadows, gruff blazing voices

Hating, waiting

Hey boy they shout, have you got any money?

And I said, I've a little money and a takeaway curry

I'm on my way home to my wife

She'll be lining up the cutlery, you know she's expecting me

Polishing the glasses and pulling out the cork

I'm down in the tube station at midnight

I first felt a fist, and then a kick

I could now smell their breath

They smelt of pubs and wormwood scrubs

And too many right wing meetings

My life swam around me

It took a look and drowned me in its own existence

The smell of brown leather

It blended in with the weather

Filled my eyes, ears, nose and mouth, it blocked all my senses

Couldn't see, hear, speak any longer

I'm down in the tube station at midnight

I said I was down in the tube station at midnight

The last thing that I saw as I lay there on the floor

Was Jesus saves painted by an atheist nutter

And a British rail poster read have an away day, a cheap holiday

Do it today

I glanced back on my life, and thought about my wife

'Cause they took the keys, and she'll think it's me

I'm down in the tube station at midnight

The wine will be flat and the curry's gone cold

I'm down in the tube station at midnight

Don't want to go down in a tube station at midnight

Don't want to go down in a tube station at midnight

Don't want to go down in a tube station at midnight


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  'A' BOMB IN WARDOUR STREET   A SOLID BOND IN YOUR HEART   ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS   All Around The World   ALL MOD CONS   Art School   Away From The Numbers   BEAT SURRENDER   BIG BIRD   Boy About Town   Bricks And Mortar   BURNING SKY   But I'm Different Now   But Iu2019m Different Now   CARNABY STREET   CARNATION   DAVID WATTS   DISGUISES   DON'T TELL THEM YOU'RE SANE   DOWN IN THE TUBE STATION AT MIDNIGHT   Dream Time   Dreams Of Children   ENGLISH ROSE   FLY   FUNERAL PYRE   GET YOURSELF TOGETHER   GHOSTS   GIRL ON THE PHONE   Going Underground   HEATWAVE   Here Come the Weekend   HERE COMES THE WEEKEND   HEY MISTER   I GOT BY IN TIME   I Need You   I Need You (For Someone)   I Need You For Someone   IN THE CITY   In the City (Encore)   In The Crowd   IN THE MIDNIGHT HOUR   In The Street Todaydavid Waller   IN THE STREET, TODAY   IT'S TOO BAD   Itu2019s Too Bad   Iu2019ve Changed My Address   Ive Changed My Address   JUST WHO IS THE 5 O'CLOCK HERO?   Life From A Window   Little Boy Soldiers   Liza Radley   LIZA RADLEY (extras version)   LONDON GIRL   LONDON TRAFFIC   Man In The Corner Shop   Monday   MR. CLEAN   Music for the Last Couple   NEWS OF THE WORLD   NO ONE IN THE WORLD   Nonstop Dancing   PITY POOR ALFIE\/FEVER   Place I Love   PRECIOUS   Pretty Green   Private Hell   RUNNING ON THE SPOT   Saturday's Kids   Scrape Away   Set The House Ablaze   SHOPPING   SLOW DOWN   Smither Jones   SMITHERS-JONES   Sounds From The Street   Start!   STRANGE TOWN   Takin My Love   Takinu2019 My Love   Thats Entertainment   THE BITTEREST PILL   The Bitterest Pill (I Ever Had To Swallow)   THE BUTTERFLY COLLECTOR   The Eton Rifles   THE GIFT   THE GREAT DEPRESSION   The Modern World   THE NIGHT   THE PLANNERS DREAM GOES WRONG   THICK AS THIEVES   Time For Truth   To Be Someone   TO BE SOMEONE (DIDN'T WE HAVE A NICE TIME)   Tonight At Noon   TOWN CALLED MALICE   TRANS GLOBAL EXPRESS   Trans-Global Express   u2018Au2019 Bomb in Wardour Street   Wasteland   WE'VE ONLY STARTED   WHEN YOU'RE YOUNG   When Youu2019re Young   Worlds Apart

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